Motivational Quotes

Life

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Life

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van